Permission to Appeal - March 2025

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Case NameJusticesPTAReasons given
JCPC 2024/0105 -

Oneil Barrett (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Jamaica)

Neutral Citation: [2023] JMCA Crim 4
Lord Reed
Lord Hamblen
Lady Rose
Refused 5 May 2025In relation to the other grounds of appeal which relate to the procedural issues considered by the Court of Appeal, it does not appear to the Appeal Panel that those grounds of themselves disclose the risk of a serious miscarriage of justice.
JCPC 2024/0104 -

Marvin Goodridge (Appellant) v Duane Donald O'Connor and two others (Respondents) (Trinidad and Tobago)

Neutral Citation: Civ App No. S068/2019 Claim No. CV2016-02405
Lord Lloyd-Jones
Lord Sales
Lord Richards
Refused 30 May 2025The Court of appeal refused in error to grant PTA because there is an appeal as of right. However, the appeal is devoid of merit and has no prospect of success. As a result, PTA is refused under PD 3.37.
JCPC 2024/0046 -

Indra Jaikaran and another (Appellants) v JMMB (T&T) Ltd (formerly called Inter Commercial Bank Ltd) (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago)

Neutral Citation: Civil Appeal No. P 303/2019
Lord Briggs
Lord Burrows
Lady Simler
Refused 8 April 2025No exceptional basis for revisiting concurrent findings of fact, No arguable point of law.
JCPC 2024/0058 -

Kerwin Simmons (Appellant) v The Water and Sewerage Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago)

Neutral Citation: Civil Appeal No. P303 of 2016
Lord Briggs
Lord Burrows
Lady Simler
Refused 8 April 2025No basis to appeal the refusal of PTA as of right on ground of delay, therefore no appeal as of right. On grounds 1 and 2 no arguable point of law. On ground 3: not a point of law which ought to be considered at this time bearing in mind that the case has already been the subject of judicial decision and reviewed on appeal.
In the following cases, the advice which the Board proposes to give to His Majesty is as indicated below
JCPC 2025/0001 -

Old Fort Bay Company Limited (Appellant) v Old Fort Bay Company Limited and another (Respondents) (The Bahamas)

Neutral Citation: SCCivApp No. 12 of 2022, SCCivApp No. 34 of 2022
Lord Hodge
Lord Leggatt
Lord Stephens
Granted 31 March 2025

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